Meanings
plural clubfuls
- As many as make up a club.
Four nights a year, at Dillon's or Mrs. Swallow's Tavern, a clubful of influential Charleston Scots all gathered.
2017, Odai Johnson, London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America3 more examples
The sheer logistics of the project defied belief, everything from safeguarding the recording equipment from a clubful of frenzied fans, to actually twisting a high enough-quality sound from the in-house PA.
2011, Dave Thompson, Perry Farrell: The Saga of a HypesterThey frequently don't have enough on them to supply a clubful of desperate potential clients (dealers often like to use the word client) keen to party away.
2014, Stephen Fry, More Fool Me“No one who has not had the experience can realize the pleasure and stimulus of being looked up to and followed, however undeservedly, by a clubful of hard-working girls,” Lockwood declares, uncannily predicting how, in the fictional world of The House of Mirth, "the admiration and interest [Lily Bart's] presence excited among the tired workers at the cliub ministered in a new form to her insatiable desire to please."
2019, Laura R. Fisher, Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era
Origin
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clubful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clubful
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